Light cigarettes duped smokers: US court (AFP)
A US federal appeals court Friday ruled the tobacco industry had deceived smokers by labeling some cigarettes as “light” when they posed just as high a health risk as other brands.
The appeals court confirmed a ruling by a lower court in August 2006 that tobacco companies lied for years about the dangerous effects of such cigarettes.
And it upheld the earlier decision that the companies must remove misleading statements such as “light” or “natural” from cigarette packets.
